Cybersecurity

REcon 2015 was a great conference with many interesting talks and people. It is always great to meet other reverse engineers from all over the world and discuss new techniques, tools and research.

The past Saturday we had the privilege of participating in this year’s edition of “Nuit du Hack”, a French security conference.

This week we joined droves of vendors and executives in celebrating InfoSecurity Europe’s 20 year anniversary.

Presentation content here mostly focuses on technologies used in fighting malware and the general misuse of mobile and computing power for serious criminal activities.

The RSA Conference 2015 is being held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. It a massive event, with thousands of people in attendance.

Last week, we had the privilege to participate in and present at the 15th edition of CanSecWest in beautiful Vancouver, BC, along with its famous accompaniment, the ever famous Pwn2Own competition.

Over the last decade DKIM signatures have become an important technology in the extensive list of methods for fighting against spam. In this article we investigate the structure of DKIM, reveal the main advantages and downsides of this technology and explore typical spammers’ tricks for forging DKIM signatures.

Users trust files signed with digital certificates, so cybercriminals are always keen to attach these certificates to their malicious files. This article explores the main threats associated with signed files, and proposes practical ways of minimizing the risks associated with launching them.

A cutting-edge IT security conference, was held from 18th -19th December. It was the second round, following its first occurrence in February 2014.

This year’s 17th Association of anti-Virus Asia Researchers international conference, “AVAR 2014” came back to Sydney, Australia with the theme “Security Down-Under”.

In this blogpost, we will review in detail the possible vectors for an attack launched on a corporate network from an infected computer within it.

The ten year anniversary edition of the Electronic KnockOut Party, held annually in Buenos Aires, Argentina, was certainly special!

The Hack In The Box (HITB) SecConf 2014 was held from the 13 to the 16 of October, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. More than 500 people from around the world participated in the event. Unfortunately, 2014 was the final round of this nice event.

During the last week of September the antimalware industry got together in one of the oldest and most legendary information security conferences in the world, the 24th Virus Bulletin International Conference (VB2014), held in the beautiful Seattle, USA.

Perfect OPSec is almost impossible. However implementing basic OPSec practices should become second nature for every researcher. You will be more careful and hopefully, avoid rookie mistakes like talking too much and bragging about your research.